Re: Labelling Vai Keyboards

From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 5768
Date: 2005-09-02

i18n@... wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > >But ideally, there should be a
> > > keyboard for a typical Vai literate developed eventually.
> >
> > Thank you for putting it so clearly.
>
> Several people here have been arguing precisely that - that ME's kb does
> not preclude in anyway anyone else making whatever kb they deem useful.

I was not, of course, referring only to the last sentence, but to
Suzanne's (uncredited here) entire posting.

> My takeaway from all this is it is likely there are at least 2 classes
> of users that might eventually prefer very different keyboards, and work
> on one of them is already underway.

The one that is a nearly insignificant minority, and that is likely to
turn the majority away from interest in using computers, because it
represents selling out to the outsiders.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...

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